Has anyone ever installed Dura Blue wheel spacers on their Lakota? If so, did it really affect the handling? Which ones would be the best to use the Graph lite or the E-Z. I wonder if these are strong enough for hard riding.

 

I dont know about the spacers holding up but i do know that the extra width improves handling. I put a Durablue 2+2 axle on my buddies lokata and it slides easier without feeling tippy. It carves corners better too. On my mojave I put the wide axle and some reverse offset front wheels on. The extra width in the front too is even better.

 

stebob-what kind of riding do you do. I have the new issue of dirtwheels,they had a shootout between the Lakota,250ex,Tralblazer. Have you seen it?

 

It was fixed. There was a pay off somewhere in there.

 

Lakotajoe-you might be right.I have a lakota i prefer it to the 250ex.i rode a new 250ex and it was a peppy little buger. But dirtwheels for got to mention that the handle bars will vibrate you silly,doubt the will be alot of mods offered.

 

14.: I ride all terrians. I ride dunes, tight woods, open woods, mud, climb hills. Not any rock crawliing though. The place I ride at is called the Badlands. Check it out at http://badlandsoffroad.com. Not too many pictures there but you get a good idea. I ride some private property too with open fields and woods.

YES, I read the Dirt Wheels. All bullshirt! Any time there is a Honda, it wins. The 250ex has 5 something inches of supsension travel front and back. Granted it is only 355 pounds dry. The Lakota smokes in a race though. Want to know something funny though. The March '00 issue had the test ride for the '00 Lakota. They spoke real well of it. Said it had good suspension and took larger jumps very well compared to what they originally thought. Noted that it didn't have any push in the corners and was a peppy, great handling, quick in the woods machine. They also said it climbed hills very well too. Even liked the auto clutch. Now, however, it pushes in the corners, doesn't climb hills well, suspension is too stiff (before they said the suspension was stiffer for great "high" speed handling. not sure what preload settings they used either), no power(although it beats the 250ex it has good power, figure that one out!)and I forget everything else. Not to mention it is only $300 less than the Lakota Sport. I'd like to see how much it can tow! I don't buy it.

Anyway thats my 2 cents.

 

Back to the topic, I put 4 rear wheel spacers on mine and I love it. About the 4 rear thing, thr rear spacers are 2" per spacer and the fronts are 1.5". There is no other diff. I ordered mine from James Lucky and the "Girl" that I talked to said that they would not fit on the front, witch makes on sence so I ordered them and they fit well. It looks good and handles even better. Oh yeah, the diff Between the E-Z fit and the graph-lite are the E-Z fit have stud extensions and the Graph-Lite You have to pound out the factory studs. Don't get the E-Z fit unless you have a impact gun.

 

I read that article in dirt wheels also. it was definately biased, but easy to figure out why. If you thumb through the magazine honda bought three full pages of advertisement, polaris bought a full page Kawasaki bought none. Coincidence? I dont think so.